Penny O’Brien is held hostage as an inducement to ensure they do as Madame Lin requests and retrieve her property. She’s looking for Jack Brady herself and “engages” Hazel et al to find Jack and recover something she claims he’s stolen from her. These investigations bring the group to the attention of Madame Lin, a mysterious lady accompanied by two large, albino apes who act as her henchmen (and are probably cousins of the late Arthur Jermyn). He can’t tell them where it goes or “anything about Gray Dragon Island either.
Its name is the Dark Mistress, and it has an unsavory reputation and a fish-eyed crew. Zeke and Hazel don’t locate Jack just yet, but the bartender does identify the ship in the photo for them. While Hazel and Zeke go looking for Jack in the Stumbling Tiger, Victoria and Cecil stop by the local newspaper and learn about a strange murder that happened–what a coincidence!–at a brothel in the same street. Since he was the one member of the Carlyle Expedition who didn’t enter the Bent Pyramid, there’s a chance that he might not only have crucial information about how to thwart the cultists’ fiendish plans, but may be willing to help them.Īmong the clues Jackson Elias left Hazel are a matchbox for the Stumbling Tiger, the seedy bar where Jack was last seen, and a photograph of a ship in the harbor. Shanghai is also where Jack Brady was seen alive after his supposed death 5 years ago. Given some of the things that have happened in the last two parts, this name is particularly disturbing. Pieces of the incredibly ancient technology recovered from the equally ancient ruins in Australia were copied and shipped to the Penhew Foundation via Shanghai, a city which happens to be the home of a cult named the Order of the Bloated Woman.
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